Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130810:18:36:00
Policies don't do any of that. >> the center for justice, you're familiar with these statistics from their 2007 report, state prosecutorses' office budgets $5.8 billion, while state and local public defender office expenditures were about $2.3 billion. how does the financial advantage alone translate to the ability of a defendant to get a fair shake? >> well, one big area is investigations. what you have in the prosecutor's office is basically the police who, when they're doing their job right, are protecting us, fine. you go into prosecutions they are the de facto investigative unit and they ...
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